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Ever wanted to can Spam?

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.

The renowned author spent 22 summers of his early life along the shore of Walloon Lake.

This historic mill has been turning apples into delicious fresh cider for over a century.

Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

A massive portrait of Abraham Lincoln created with approximately 24,500 pennies.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.